Ice Cream Sandwich debut moved up to October to compete with the Apple iPhone?

0.phoneArena
09 Aug 2011, 15:03posted on

According to a source for BGR, Google is moving up the release date of Ice Cream Sandwich and the first devices to have it installed as a means to combat the expected launch of the Apple iPhone 5; one possible ICS device could be a next-generation Nexus handset...

15.justj (unregistered)

Wow! Really? If there is a shot at Ice Cream, And the SGS2 will probley NEVER get it's release, and if it does, it will stay on Gingerbread, Oh Say, FOREVER, so why are people still acting interested in this OLD piece of garbage?? Yes, I am Bitter, I waited and waited for it, and now am, well bitter and over it!!

It's the same thing over and over. If you keep waiting for a future proof device, you are going to never get a phone. Same thing with all electronics. A big time device comes out but not even 4-5 months later, it's already got a replacement.

The SGS2 is still and will be for a long time the best android/smart phone there is. It's very thin, gorgeous large display, the fastest and smoothest OS experience I've ever seen. A really nice camera on both the back and the front with loads of memory to go with it.

Will Ice Cream ever come on the SGS2? Probably not but guess what? I doubt ANY of the phones will get Ice Cream, it's going to be such a huge change I don't think any of the current phones will get ice cream. So stop complaining, its not just SGS2.

Hell, there are still a lot of devices that don't even have Gingerbread.

57.Ed (unregistered)

Are you guys forgetting about custom Roms? I have the POS HTC hero that came with cupcake and I'm running Gingerbread...even if the GS2 doesn't get icecream officially, surely it won't be difficult for modders to port it...the device is more than capable.

77.Steven42 (unregistered)

Of course Ice Creame will come to the SGSII. Why wouldn't it? Fastest dual core in the market right now and has a gig of RAM. If the Nexus S will a single core and lower ram can get it why not a more advanced phone? Watch phones will worse specs than the SGSII come out with stock Ice Cream.

I beg to fifer, according to the IO the update will go to many phones as possible and with 4.3" phones i don't think they will have problems rolling ICS, the only think I would like is that updates are done faster
I think something like asus did releasing updates within weeks from the official announcement and everyone would live happy

Whoa now, Google wants to put a hurting on Apple huh! Google means business & they really want to stick it to iOS 5. I like the ballsiness & I will be there to support Google & Android Ice Cream Sandwich. I REALLY WANT A QUAD-CORE ANDROID ICE CREAM SANDWICH TABLET. If one is available then I am so there! Now if HTC can send an Ice Cream Sandwich update to my HTC Evo 3D, then that would be an INSANE move to counter Apple! Wouldn’t that be the ultimate best case scenario! Or imagine if all the top tier Android phones would get updated to Ice Cream Sandwich around the same time as the release of the Apple iPhone 5. Imagine THAT! I know this is all wishful thinking, but hey you never know! lol

58.Ed (unregistered)

guys chill out this is a ****ing phone website. Leave the bulls**t politics on the cnn and foxnews forums please lol.

And to the guy regarding iPhone...you do know Android has more market share right? Not that it really matters, it all comes down to preference. I don't quite understand why people become so attached to their respective operating systems and device manufacturers..you do realize we're all just dollar signs to them right? Just buy whatever you think is best or suites you haha...

The_Miz I am not a Republican nor a Democrat. I vote for the best man or woman, BUT you are 100% correct. Obama is learning on the job & he hasn't been a good president at all. I would have voted for Hilary Clinton. She would have had this country going in a much better direction than Obama. Since she didn't run for President I voted McCain because he was already prepared to be President. Obama is on the job learning & look where we are now! Look how he handled the oil spill in the gulf. He got calls from countries who have dealt with that problem & knew how to solve it, but you know what the President said, no we can handle it. The oil gushed for months, we could have had a remedy days after the spill happened & help our foreign relations at the same time. But no because our President was learning on the job! America's credit rating dropped for the first time EVER! That is unprecedented. Obama WILL always be remembered for that. My kids, kids will talk about that in class! The_Miz thumbs up for you. When you are right, you are right!

Obama = worst president ever. And he is only getting worse. Carter and Bush are sighing relief somewhere that someone is worse than them.. maybe combined.

BTW, how are the "republicans destroying everything". Your realize that democrats have had nearly complete control of congress for like 50 of the last 60 years? I love how people that dont pay attention go along with "blaming republicans", when they are barely ever in power. Do Repubs make dumb moves? heck ya. Do democrats? heck ya. Who has made the most dumb moves because of the time in power? Democrats. Who made all these crazy rules so people could game the system? Democrats. Who penned the housing bill that brought down the market? Dems. Who refused to cut spending down which resulted in our credit drop? Dems.. on and on.
BTW, its all one party these days. 90% of dems and republicans think they are on the same team... and thats not the team that plays for the american people.

remixfa I think the only reason Obama was elected was because America was down and out. If America was riding high he would have never been elected. I can go on forever, but what I think we need is a savvy business man who can take America out from these depths not seen since the Great Depression. That candidate would need a strong Vice President & a quality cabinet. We need to fix ourselves first, keep defense up & then concentrate on the rest of the world. We are in a huge funk & Obama's policy of spending to get out of debt is clearly not an option. Just look at America's credit rating. People have lived entire life spans & never seen the credit rating drop. Obama is clearly the worst president, he has Carter beat. Carter can now die & say hey at least I wasn't the worst! lol

81.This game we play. (unregistered)

It doesn't matter which party is in office, the objective of politicians is to beat down the opposite party. It is a constant tug of war. The events that have occurred since Obama has been in office would have happened no matter who was in office. What this generation of Republicans have done better than any generation before them is figure out how to use the media to paint a perfect picture. (Fox News). Anyone discussing politics should know that there are two sides to every story. The Republicans have taken advantage of Obama's starting point and tried everything to keep him down. They even put their own agenda ahead of getting back in office ahead of the American people.

Republicans or anyone anti Obama don't care what is happening. In fact, to them the worse the better. The more blame they can place on Obama and the Democrats the more likely they can get back in office. Once they do, guess what? The Democrats will do the exact same thing until they get back in office.

Ok but we are talking about what has been done when Obama has been in office. That cat & mouse game is part of politics, one ugly aspect of politics I truly hate. To me it’s not about Republicans vs. Democrats, I vote for the best person for the job. Obama was not even the best Democrat at the time. Look I can write a 40 page thesis about all the questionable moves done by the Obama administration. Fact is the credit rating had dropped. Obama has more than doubled the deficit in 2 years. He wants to cut defense. If the terrorist see America is cutting defense there will be another 9/11. We need to protect ourselves. I was there in NYC when it happened I was in that cloud of debris. It was not fun & I would never want any other American to go and experience that. Obama is making the wrong choices, he CLEARLY was not & is not ready for the most demanding job in the world President of the United States of America!

And how is that exactly a fact? You saw a little bit of the new IOS5 sure, but you have no idea what the iphone 5 will be or look like. Not to mention, you have no idea what ICS will be and what kind of devices will run it. Sure maybe the iphone 5 will have dual core but I wouldn't be surprised if there were already quad core phones by then.

53.whatduh (unregistered)

Hey RoryRevolution ever wonder how come every post in phone arena ultimately ends up being an SGS2 forum?
Ohhh....wait a minute.....its because of you and your never ending tirades on the Galaxy s2....
give us some break......
Lot of devices will come out in near future that will make SGS2 a puny.......
and they will succumb to the same fate too...
so rather than being a glue to sgs2 why dont u just stick to the post's direction......
and by the way i use sgs2 myself but u wont see me being a pain in the ass for others....
take a cue....

ok i'll take a "cue" you freaking moron. Why don't you use your actual user name on here if you are going to talk so much crap about me? Are you too chicken s**t to? I mean it's just the internet after all. Stop crying and whining because I think highly of the SGS2. The fact that it bothers you so much clearly makes me think you have mental and anger problems. I would seriously suggest you get treatment.

63.CodeName Infamous (unregistered)

The Miz you sir are an idiot. U have no idea what future holds for Iphone 5 or ICS. Therefore don't pretend. Second 8 years of Bush, Republicans refusing bipartisan legislation, and the Tea party (aka t bag party); Obama had a huge mess to clean up and considering all the political, social, and economic factors he's done an favorable job.

can you tell me all the things Obama has done right? BTW, the repulicans were doing what was needed to keep our credit rating from falling. They were all warned months in advance anything less than a 4-6 trillion cut would drop our credit rating. It was the DEMS that refused to cut and only wanted another blank check. It was a completely bipartisian bill that passed.. one neither side was happy with.. exept obama, who got his blank check... and we got screwed again.

People that pretend to be political but yet know nothing about what is going on are part of the problem. If you dont pay attention just say "i dont pay attention" instead of trying to regurgitate a bunch of tired lines from liberal media sources.

Its kinda like Taco commenting on Android features that he has never seen or used.

also, how did bush get a second 8 years? And you realize that The democrats were in control of the house and senate for the majority of Bush's term right? Bush didnt write the housing bill, or any other bill that put us in this mess... Democrats did. Pelosi and Dodd have their names on quite a few economy crashing bills. The president doesnt write any bills. Get a clue.

85.box (unregistered)

by the time Google updates all of the phones to ice cream sandwich.. the iphone 6 wil be around the corner... 50% of phones are running froyo...hmmmm wait to go google... you and the BIonic.. lost me... is either apple or nokia.. for me...

p.s i heard that ICS is only for dual core phones.... so most of us wont get that update...

ICS is going to have minimum system requirements from what I understand to reduce fragmentation going forward.. so yea, if that's true, there will be a lot of phones left out now, but in the future there will be a lot LESS left out.

IF its true, basically you will have your premium androids on ICS and the basic ones on probably gingerbread.

ICS will get native dual core support that does not mean it will work on dual core phones only.... I could be wrong but my bid is on that, also Google has taken this as an issue and it seems its going to be addressed (hopefully properly) to reduce fragmentation we also need to account that its going to be almost a year since the last android smartphone update (AKA gingerbread) witch could mean that they have already decided to leave major updates for once a year, now i would personally recommend that you wait (if you like many things from android) and see this years end to decide

A mimick of what is already available on almost all Android phones isn't going to rock the OS world. Then again it is apple and with a cult following like that I'm sure it will sell like crazy. Still nothing innovative or new.

Regardless of which devices you like, it's going to be exciting to see what these big heavyweights bring out this fall. MS is coming out with some new phones, too. RIM announced some new devices already, but a bigger release is not due until early next year.

If they can pull it off, then okay. But in doing so, they better not sacrifice what may be some much needed time to work out bugs and get everything working absolutely perfect. I'd be just as happy to see ICS delayed until December if that means it's that much better when it comes out.

That said, I really, really, REALLY hope that ICS gets released to my Atrix. :D

91.box (unregistered)

also.. I like that Apple doesnt plan around any device.. but Android does... it shows brain .. but also fear.. Apples takes their time and when there ready .. they will launch the iphone 5... not the other way around... ICS will be half baked... ICS will melt under the iphone 5 heat..

ps. we will see more than one update for the ICS before christmas.. to fix bugs and issues..

Yeah, and those major updates tend to brick phones on iOS. The turnaround on major updates is getting quicker. And with Google clamping down on manufacturers and carriers getting their heads out of their asses, update frequency will increase even more.

I think you should wait for a nexus maybe? rumors say that the next nexus will be on all mayor carriers as the current nexus is only missing Verizon if so it would be the best device to go for when you want the latest android features bug fixes and timely updates, consider ICS your last resource before jumping ships its all I can say

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